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Chin. Phys. B, 2016, Vol. 25(12): 124207    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/25/12/124207
ELECTROMAGNETISM, OPTICS, ACOUSTICS, HEAT TRANSFER, CLASSICAL MECHANICS, AND FLUID DYNAMICS Prev   Next  

Nonlinear compression of picosecond chirped pulse from thin-disk amplifier system through a gas-filled hollow-core fiber

Jun Lu(陆俊)1,2,3, Zhi-Yuan Huang(黄志远)2,4, Ding Wang(王丁)2, Yi Xu(许毅)2, Yan-Qi Liu(刘彦祺)2, Xiao-Yang Guo(郭晓杨)2, Wen-Kai Li(黎文开)2, Fen-Xiang Wu(吴分翔)2, Zheng-Zheng Liu(刘征征)2, Yu-Xin Leng(冷雨欣)2
1. School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China;
2. State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China;
3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
4. Department of Physics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
Abstract  

We theoretically study the nonlinear compression of a 20-mJ, 1030-nm picosecond chirped pulse from the thin-disk amplifier in a krypton gas-filled hollow-core fiber. The chirp from the thin-disk amplifier system has little influence on the initial pulse, however, it shows an effect on the nonlinear compression in hollow-core fiber. We use a large diameter hollow waveguide to restrict undesirable nonlinear effects such as ionization; on the other hand, we employ suitable gas pressure and fiber length to promise enough spectral broadening; with 600-μm, 6-bar (1 bar=105 Pa), 1.8-m hollow fiber, we obtain 31.5-fs pulse. Moreover, we calculate and discuss the optimal fiber lengths and gas pressures with different initial durations induced by different grating compression angles for reaching a given bandwidth. These results are meaningful for a compression scheme from picoseconds to femtoseconds.

Keywords:  picosecond pulse      hollow-core fiber      thin-disk amplifier      spectrum broadening  
Received:  30 May 2016      Revised:  15 July 2016      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  42.65.Re (Ultrafast processes; optical pulse generation and pulse compression)  
  42.65.Jx (Beam trapping, self-focusing and defocusing; self-phase modulation)  
  42.81.Qb (Fiber waveguides, couplers, and arrays)  
  42.55.Xi (Diode-pumped lasers)  
Fund: 

Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2011CB808101), the Funds from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 1112790, 10734080, 61221064, 60908008, and 61078037).

Corresponding Authors:  Yu-Xin Leng     E-mail:  lengyuxin@siom.ac.cn

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Jun Lu(陆俊), Zhi-Yuan Huang(黄志远), Ding Wang(王丁), Yi Xu(许毅), Yan-Qi Liu(刘彦祺), Xiao-Yang Guo(郭晓杨), Wen-Kai Li(黎文开), Fen-Xiang Wu(吴分翔), Zheng-Zheng Liu(刘征征), Yu-Xin Leng(冷雨欣) Nonlinear compression of picosecond chirped pulse from thin-disk amplifier system through a gas-filled hollow-core fiber 2016 Chin. Phys. B 25 124207

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